[TRNSYS-users] Strange Opening Factor (OF) of Window

David BRADLEY d.bradley at tess-inc.com
Fri Sep 30 07:53:44 PDT 2011


Wang,
   I will preface this by mentioning that I am not an expert in the 
TRNFlow part of Type56.

   It is a little hard to know what is going on without knowing anything 
about the building. However, if you have multiple zones in the building, 
I imagine that there would be some air mixing going on between zones due 
to internal temperature and height differences and the CO2 concentration 
would decrease in one zone while increasing in another.

   I would also recommend looking at the COMIS documentation (COMIS is 
the engine that underlies TRNFlow) to see whether its algorithms are 
trying to predict CO2 concentration at a particular point in the space 
(like we do in Type56 for comfort calculations at a particular point in 
a zone) or whether it is assuming a fully mixed zone as far as the CO2 
level is concerned. If COMIS is calculating concentration at a point and 
the air continues to mix after your opening factor has gone to zero then 
that might explain the decrease.

  Lastly, your mechanical ventilation system might have something to do 
with the decrease; If you are actively supplying air to the space after 
the opening factor is zero and if the mechanical ventilation system has 
some outdoor air associated with it then that also would explain the 
decrease in CO2 level.

Regards,
  David


On 9/30/2011 08:47, 王洋 wrote:
> Dear all,
>      I simulated CO2 concentration changes using TRNFlow. But there is 
> a STRANGE phenomenon. There are 2 occupants from 8am to 6 pm, CO2% is 
> controlled by PID controller which controls Opening Factor (OF) of 
> window at the set-point 1000 ppm. From 6 pm, there are no occupants, 
> OF is 0, there is no infiltration in TRNBuild (Certainly, infiltration 
> in TRNBuild indeed will inactivate when couping TRNFlow based on 
> TRNFlow Manual). However, from 6 pm, CO2% begins to decrease. It's 
> extremely strange!
>    Which relative expert can expain that? Or give me some advices for 
> that? I am puzzled for a long time.
>    Many thanks in advance!
>   br
>  wang
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>     Subject: [TRNSYS-users] TRNSYS error 300
>     Dear all,
>     Whenever I ry to run a type 56 simulation in TRNSED I am given the
>     following error even though the same program runned perfectly in
>     TRNEdit
>      ***** ERROR *****        TRNSYS ERROR # 300
>      UNABLE TO START PROGRAM IN CALLPROGRAM UTILITY
>      PLEASE CHECK PATH AND PROGRAM NAME, THIS MAY BE A PROBLEM IN TYPE 66
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>     *** Fatal Error at time   :         0.000000
>         Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>         Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>         TRNSYS Message    300 : The TRNSYS Program attempted to
>     evaluate an EQUATION that raised a negative number to a
>     non-integer value. Please check the EQUATION formulation and
>     re-run the simulation
>         Reported information  : Not available
>     the message is not very helpfull and I don't even use Type 66 in
>     my simulation and I checked all my equations and nothing obvious
>     comes to view.
>     Is there any known solution to this problem? If need be I can send
>     you the files im using.
>     Thank you
>     Carlos Torres
>     Stagiaire universitaire
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>     Subject: [TRNSYS-users] simulation studio crash when updating project
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>     Dear all
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>     I cannot update my project any more without crashing simulation
>     studio (*.tpf and *.b17 in attachment).
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>     Is there another way to update the input list for Type56 so that I
>     can keep on working?
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>     Thanks a lot for your help.
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